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fable
n. tale, story that is not based on fact; fictitious story having supernatural elements, legend, myth, fairy tale


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Fable
A fable is a brief, succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animalsplantsinanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim. A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech and other powers of humankind.Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished. In the King James Version of the Bible, the translators rendered "μύθος" ("mythos") as "fable" in the New Testament, in First and Second TimothyTitus and First Peter.
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fable
Noun
1. a deliberately false or improbable account
(synonym) fabrication, fiction
(hypernym) falsehood, falsity, untruth, false statement
(hyponym) canard
2. a short moral story (often with animal characters)
(synonym) parable, allegory, apologue
(hypernym) story
(hyponym) Aesop's fables
3. a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
(synonym) legend
(hypernym) story
(hyponym) Arthurian legend
(class) grail, Holy Grail, Sangraal


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fabeln
v. romance; tell fantastic stories; tell tall tales

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fable (f)
n. fable, tale

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